Knowing yourself.

  Hey it's been some time! Life is definitely busy for me right now. And I still can't believe half a year is gone. If you actually realise it, I always say that sentence quite a lot. Perhaps often enough I always have that in my mind. I wonder is it because I did not cherish my time that is given to me or simply because I suck at time management.

    TIME FOR REFLECTION. 

   Anyway, we should always take the time everyday to reflect. Only if we reflect then we are able to identify the events that happened and learn from it. Everyday, we will always have positive and negative things that happen to us. If we actually take time to reflect, we can maybe learn something for it.

  Take for example, something bad happened to you at work earlier on. Upon reflection, we can actually identify the flaws behind it, and learn from the mistakes if we had committed them. 

  One thing that I actually realised after years is that we should always learn to listen to yourself. There will always be lots of unwanted advices and comments or opinions and we will often sometimes get influence from it very easily. Yes, we can of course listen to this advice when needed. It becomes a danger when we fail to listen to ourselves, and neglecting what we actually really want. As the saying goes, "Nobody can be trusted." It is true to a certain extent. I am not trying to be pessimistic or being sceptical but the world is often filled with negative/ double faced people or people who will try to bring you down. It is the human nature. We often care only about our own self-interest. These big ambition maybe often lead people to do certain harm to others. Certainly there people who are not as negative as what i have said earlier on.

  Take for example, the most classic example, Let say you are wondering which study course to go too, if people are selfish enough, they might advice you the course that might not be popular or etc. 

There are definitely more examples to name but it is endless. 

   My main point is that we should often enough not get influence by others easily. especially bad influence. We should have our own opinion and mind. We should have big open hearts at the same time. Of course not being too stubborn too. So with that, we can protect ourselves with negative influence. 

  Life is too short not to enjoy the things that you really want. 

Singing off, 

Carmen